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Just thought I'd provide a brief update on my recent activities and releases. I've just finished recording and mixing a new CD called "Animism." It is sort of a hybrid of my more structured "Folklore" CD and the atmospheric layering in "Gongland," but with a prominence given to textures. It may be out by June or July 2012, most likely on Projekt, but I'll update when I know more.

I also contributed a piece to Black Tape For A Blue Girl's 2nd CD for "The Rope 25" Projekt release--a cover version of "Hide In Yourself" featuring a bit of gamelan and palm harp. Other ambient artists on the comp are Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana, Fear Fall Burning) and Erik Wollo. Here is a link to that release (which came out this month): http://projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00020

A demix/deconstruction I did for Barry Cleveland's King Crimsonesque "Hologamatron" album in 2010 is up at Bandcamp. I think it can be streamed from there, for those who are curious. I used mostly acoustic elements from different tracks in the piece, "Abandoned Mines," and mangled and stretched them a bit. The really ominous sound you hear in that piece was originally a Michael Manring bassline. The link to that piece is here: http://barrycleveland.bandcamp.com/track/abandoned-mines-forrest-fang-remix

My last release, my second Sans Serif CD, "Unbound" has been out since this summer and is available from iTunes and from the Hypnos store.

I really like your remix of Abandoned Mines. Your approach makes reference to the original (a fine track on a superb album) while giving me more of the feeling of being in an abandoned mine. I'm glad it was included on the original release.

Been trying not to clutter up my mini-thread with too many posts about the same release. For those who wanted hear at least one complete track from the Animism CD first, the second track ("The Chamelon's Paintbox) is at the tail end of Projekt's latest podcast that features the band Unto Ashes. Here is that link through iTunes:

I recently completed two pieces for a Projekt holiday compilation called "Ornamental" that is in pre-order phase now (it's a bit early for that, I know). The first piece is a cover version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." The second is an extended ambient remix of that piece. One-minutes samples of both are up at Ornamental's Projekt page for those who are curious:

For those who may be interested, I appeared on Dean Suzuki's Discreet Music radio show on KPFA this past Sunday to promote my Projekt CD, "Animism," which was released in July. An audio archive of that interview can be found here: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/85406. The interview is during the first hour. The show will be up there until Sunday, November 4. It's not a hi-fi archive, but I do premiere a new piece towards the end, a cover version of 'Warszawa' that I recorded for an upcoming Projekt CD tribute to David Bowie.

Good interview. Jorge Reyes anecdote especially interesting, although you stated he passed away "in the late 90's". Wasn't it just a couple years ago, like 2010 or 2011?

Hi drone on, Thanks for listening. Yes, you're right--looks like it was closer to 2009. I was probably thinking of the last recordings I had heard from him. I know he continued to perform in Mexico into the 2000s, but his visibility in the states seemed to slip after the 90s (I know he had health problems, and that probably didn't help).

Some reissue news of sorts. Projekt will be reissuing my "Wolf At the Ruins" CD this coming year. I don't have the timing nailed down just yet, but Robert Rich will be remastering it (the original master sounded rather crunchy, as it was recorded in the mid-to-late 80s and was pre-digital).